Aww, loved reading about your Christmas memories! So special. And we love fruitcake in our family, too. : )
Will post the fruitcake recipe soon; but it’s probably the same one everyone has had for decades.
We’re the only ones in our circle who like it; so we usually cut it up, vacuum pack, and eat it all year :-)
-JT
I worked with a gal from Jamaica years ago, she was a real domestic goddess that gal. She could sew, did beautiful, lacy crochet work and she could really cook too. I know she could cook because we used to have a little potluck in our office on New Year’s Eve.
One year she brought in “mutton stew”, very good but it wasn’t lamb. I asked her about it later and she admitted it was goat, but she called it mutton because she was afraid otherwise we wouldn’t have eaten it. And she was probably right about that.
She also made a fantastic rum fruit cake. Well, it was the kind of cake where you just pour the rum right over it and let it meld for a while. Delicious and I think with 3 small pieces you’d be pretty bombed!
I made probably 10 loaf pans this past weekend...got them "curing" right now....
tinsel is something that took me to age 60 to get over.....all these yrs it was just traditional to me, but alas, I've changed....lol...
I seem to put less and less up on the tree as the yrs go by...I'm liking a simplier tree anyway....we still get a fresh cut one...
I'll tell you what was always a big thing in our house...ribbon candy....nobody that I know of every ate it but it looked so pretty in the dish....ribbon candy and Christmas go together hand and hand.